Dive into our production of Donizetti's comedy Don Pasquale with director Mariame Clément, Danielle de Niese (Norina), Alek Shrader (Ernesto), Nikolay Borchev (Malatesta), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale) and conductor Enrique Mazzola.

Choreographer Andrew George explores our production of Giulio Cesare and talks about how Bollywood inspired the choreography.

Alexandra Coghlan talks to Musicologist John Deathridge and costume designer Nicky Gillibrand to explore Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to directing duo Barbe & Doucet about their production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. She also meets the creative minds who brought the set to life.

Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to conductor Enrique Mazzola about his love for Rossini and designer Joanna Parker about bringing Annabel Arden's vision to life for this production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to director Floris Visser who tells us how he drew inspiration from photography, cinema and mythology for his new production of Puccini's La bohème.

Opera Specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to Director Laurent Pelly and mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac who plays Elle to explore Poulenc's La Voix humaine.

Opera Specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to chorus director Aidan Oliver and set designer Caroline Ginet to explore Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias.

Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to Director Francesco Micheli, Costume Designer Alessio Rosati and Costume Supervisor Diane Williams to explore our production of Handel's Alcina.

Directed by Melly Still, this new production is the first major, professional staging of our lifetime, and the first opportunity to hear the opera as Smyth intended, with its original French libretto.

Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to director Melly Still and mezzo-soprano Karis Tucker...

Love conquers all in Berlioz’s sparkling take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Opera Specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to Berlioz scholar Hugh MacDonald and actress Katherine Parkinson to explore the opera.

Donizetti's blissful big-hearted L'elisir d'amore throws an operatic spanner in the works, proving that comedy can be romantic too with a capital 'R' as well as a small one.

Alexandra Coghlan talks to musicologist Dr Flora Willson and novelist Amanda Craig to explore the opera.

Opera Specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to historian Marina Warner and cultural historian Gavin Plumley to dive into the musical waters of Dvořák's fairytale opera.

Since its 2017 premiere, Hamlet has been praised for its unerring virtuosity and mesmerising score, won a host of major awards and travelled to three continents.

Alexandra Coghlan talks to librettist Matthew Jocelyn, composer Brett Dean and Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan Bate to explore the o...

Salvation and damnation, innocence and corruption, love, hatred and a beautiful boy all collide in Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd.

Alexandra Coghlan talks to naval historian Dr James Davey and musicologist Dr Imani Mosley to explore Britten’s evocative, ambiguous score.

Famously described by writer ETA Hoffmann as “the opera of all operas”, Don Giovanni is a work that dared to bring new darkness to a legend whose dangerous edges often came sheathed in comedy.

Alexandra Coghlan talks to author and critic Lucasta Miller and bass-baritone Gerald Finley to explore ...

Author Joanne Harris and music scholar Emily Kilpatrick join Alexandra Coghlan on a dive into Ravel's two sparkling miniatures: L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges. Immersing themselves in these two magical worlds, they uncover just some of the machinery the composer keeps hidden beh...

Combining the expressive arias of Handel’s operas – each a window into the human soul, or lack thereof – and the dynamic chorus writing of his church music, Saul is the original 18th-century blockbuster.

Alexandra Coghlan talks to Handel biographer Jonathan Keates and novelist Donna Leon to expl...